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George Washington, the first president of the United States. George (English: / ˈ dʒ ɔːr dʒ /) is a masculine given name derived from the Greek Georgios (Γεώργιος; Ancient Greek: [ɡeɔː́rɡi.os], Modern Greek: [ʝeˈorʝi.os]).
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Jorginho, George, Georgia, Georgina Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George . While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish [ˈxoɾxe] ; Portuguese [ˈʒɔɾʒɨ] .
George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel in German), German composer; Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet; Georg Hólm, bassist for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós; Georg Løkkeberg, Norwegian actor; Georg Listing, (born 1987), German bassist (Tokio Hotel) Georg Maier, German actor and theatre director
Ghoti is often cited to support English spelling reform, and is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, [8] a supporter of this cause. However, the word does not appear in Shaw's writings, [4] and a biography of Shaw attributes it instead to an anonymous spelling reformer. [9]
At the end of its second-quarter earnings release, Wal-Mart dropped a bomb on the business community. Henceforth, the big-box behemoth would no longer be called "Wal-Mart," but rather "Walmart ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic given names shows Scottish Gaelic given names beside their English language equivalent. In some cases, the equivalent can be a cognate, in other cases it may be an Anglicised spelling derived from the Gaelic name, or in other cases it can be an etymologically unrelated name.
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